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JEWISH HERO
By Dr. Mel Waldman A monolith before the war, he stood tall and ominous, like an ancient Roman centurion, looming in the distance, destined to be a warrior, a patriot, a Jewish hero from Brooklyn, mythological but as real as any soldier returning to us with body parts missing, brain-damaged and overloaded with violent imagery, [...]
29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedWHAT I LISTEN TO
By Dr. Mel Waldman A shrink, I listen to the voices of darkness, ghostly voices of the living dead wandering in a wasteland of despair, howling voices, horrific voices shrieking Hell, mournful voices, mad voices, mutilated voices sputtering chaos from murdered souls, traumatic voices testifying against the human beasts who had tortured them or others; [...]
29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTHE SCARECROW
By Dr. Mel Waldman I passed the Scarecrow yesterday on the Road of Nothingness. Looking back, I still see it. I’ve traveled miles and miles and yet, the eerie thing is always there. Where am I? In the distance, I see its metal face. It beckons me. A familiar stranger, it waits. I slow down [...]
29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBattlestar Galactica – Favorite Mini Series
Thanks for the post from Lynn Guy The Battlestar Galactica series has always been popular amongst the science fiction crowd. However, it isn’t until its recent incarnation that the series truly took off. It all began with an epic mini series, which set the stage for one of the epic science fiction stories ever told. [...]
29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBLACK MASK
By Dr. Mel Waldman I peeled off the mask of summer. Almost naked, I wear Death’s black mask. No tags for this post.
29Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Surrounding Sky
By Bruce Memblatt Red velvet drapes hung just to the left of David on the day he died. Just above the drapes the plaster cracked on the ceiling around the base of a hook that overlooked the window. A frayed rope hung from the hook. Sun streamed through a gap in the drapes affecting his [...]
26Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedFavorite Superhero: Rorschach
Content by Sol Rosales I’ve been a huge fan of the Watchmen series of comic books since my days in college. I used to go to the library and check out the graphic novels, then I would go to the lounge to read all of them. I fell in love with Rorschach, who is a [...]
26Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedForever Dark
By Faraz Gafoor Ambition is the disease from which evil comes. But without it we cannot hope to glimpse our dearest dreams. Without ambition, we are but puppets dancing to the tune of another’s song, prisoners to a fate we did not choose. Yet, if left unchecked and wild, ambition makes prisoners of those without [...]
23Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Let Me In
In theaters Friday, October 01, 2010 A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian No tags for this post.
22Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedMaggie
By Jeff Powell It was a lazy Saturday morning, the kind that can only be spent in bed. The window curtains were open, granting the sun admittance in the form of golden rays of light that illuminated countless specs of airborne dust, sailing lackadaisically around the room. The only sound was the deep and rhythmic [...]
21Sep2010 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedGet a BITE out of this show.
Contribution by Kennith Griffin The Vampire Diaries is back on. While this show may not be ‘new’ it’s still newer to viewers. The Vampire Diaries is about two vampire brothers who inadvertently fall in love with the same girl..twice. Stefan is unlike the rest of the vampires. He doesn’t feed on humans and honestly cares [...]
21Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Single Bloodline Out Of Time
By David Burgett Two year old Aaron Marsdale squealed with glee when he saw the sidewalk chalk sitting on the shelf in the garage. He squirmed as his father lifted him out of the car seat and as soon as his feet hit the concrete floor, he ran to the shelf and grabbed the small [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 7 comments | ContinuedFATA MORGANA
By Dr. Mel Waldman Fata Morgana glitters in the desert of my dreams, a mirage, filling my empty soul with hope, fulfilling my needs beneath a glorious sun and the vast heavens beyond, Fata Morgana glows. Sometimes strangers see her off the coast of Sicily. I’ve heard rumors you may find her near the Strait [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedWAVES OF REDEMPTION
By Dr. Mel Waldman Prayer. I pray to my G-d, Hashem, to bless me with forgiveness, and to bestow upon me the gift of redemption. Silence. The Ultimate Nothingness speaks to me from across the abyss and from within the Void. Revelation. The Without End whispers eternal wisdom from the other side of reality and [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSTRANGER
By Dr. Mel Waldman A stranger arrived today. He’s staying in my house. I suppose he’s a guest. Yet I didn’t invite him. What else can I say on this mysterious day? A stranger arrived today. I sauntered off and slipped surreptitiously into my tiny bathroom. When I looked in the mirror, I wasn’t there. [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedINSIDE EINSTEIN’S DREAMS
By Dr. Mel Waldman Thank you, Professor Lightman, for your whirling, swirling creation, Einstein’s Dreams, a surreal novel and phantasmagoric exploration of time. Thank you. Inside Einstein’s fictional brain, you manipulate time, not in a Machiavellian way, but in the spirit of a curious, generous Creator, blessing the genius with eerie, prophetic dreams as Einstein [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTHE ALCHEMIST
By Dr. Mel Waldman I eat the darkness. It devours me too. You may discover its power one day, one apocalyptic hour, when you eat and bless the darkness and bask in its hidden heat. Yes, you may meet the darkness, for it waits for you. I drink its pitch-black evil. It swallows my swirling [...]
20Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedNeon Electric
By Ron Koppelberger Posey Wing lay beneath the window sill staring through the blinds; there were a few missing louvers and he could just make out the neon signs exclamation. “HOT….L” Vacancy the sign flashed. The red neon gave Posey a candent red eyed appearance, pupils dilate and undulates, scarlet like the eyes of a [...]
18Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedShadow
By Christopher Hivner Lead the way and I will follow, ready to pounce when the need rises in my throat. No tags for this post.
16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedViva la Revolution
By Christopher Hivner Flesh colored tomes of a dynasty’s end roam the shelves in herds. Bellows of enfants terribles startle the silverfish into corners dark and quiet. Ranging battle noises fill the stale, vapor-heavy air with the clank of swords and the dying wails of glory sacrificed soldiers. The sultans and kings, emperors and pharaohs, [...]
16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSulphur
By Christopher Hivner She loved fire. She loved fire like some people love single malt scotch, prayed to it the way a warrior prays to Woden, danced in its shadows as taught by a demon whose name I will not speak. She loved fire, caressed its flames like a lover’s shaft, embraced it in arms [...]
16Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued‘Body Snatchers’ actor Kevin McCarthy is dead at 96
(CNN) — Kevin McCarthy, whose 65-year-long acting career included the horror classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died Saturday. He was 96. The chiseled-jaw character actor appeared in hundreds of films and television shows, starting in 1945, according to the Internet Movie Database. McCarthy died of natural causes at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts, [...]
13Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Old Demon
By John Grey I have fallen out of love with death. I sit on patios, Unmoved, in the lemon wash of morning. Surprise, surprise, the brightness doesn’t violate. Stay with it long enough, it almost humanizes. Grass dances at my feet, loops no nooses. Hours drone with bees that pollinate old anger into honey. Time [...]
10Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBlack and White
By John Grey It s a place where everybody walks around in black and white. No color, no shades of gray, just faces split down the middle, brightness and its shadow, love and hate, life and death. Look at these people sure but don’t expect the subtleties, the intricacies, you’re familiar with. They will kiss [...]
10Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBrewery tour in Boston
Guest post written by David Baron As soon as my wife starting planning a trip to Boston I knew I wanted to do two things: go to a Red Sox game and take a tour of the Samuel Adams brewery. Well, we ended up doing to do both and both were fantastic. At the brewery [...]
10Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedRocky Horror creator granted New Zealand residency
British writer and actor RICHARD O’BRIEN has won the right to retire to New Zealand after immigration officials overturned a previous ruling banning him from obtaining residency. The 68-year-old creator of cult movie and stage spectacular The Rocky Horror Picture Show filed an application for permanent residency earlier this year (10), claiming he wished to [...]
9Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Monsters
In theaters 10/29/2010 | Rated PG Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. Tags: american tourist, monsters, alien invasion, cynical journalist
7Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSinful Whispers
By Ron Koppelberger A nightmare spoken of by the desolate Abandon of sinful whispers and silken ebony sashay, The mischance of a reverie in sensations sated by blood And bone, by fires in tinctured shadow and Coveted desires in silhouette, a symmetry Of eerie light bought by a trail of Breadcrumbs unto the path of [...]
6Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedEthereal Smoke
By Ron Koppelberger Rouges in meandering tinder, by the way of fire And lost loves, gone astray in alabaster grimaces Of raven surety and oily black sky, an ethereal Smoke borne unto the moment of Knowledge unbidden in wonting flames Of passion and rage, a ghostly touch of love Sleek in shadow and old dreams [...]
5Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Saw 3D
In theaters Friday, October 29, 2010 As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror Tags: jigsaw
5Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Resident Evil: Afterlife
In theaters Friday, September 10, 2010 In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Tags: resident evil, resident evil afterlife, virus infection
5Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTron: Legacy
In theaters Friday, December 17, 2010 TRON is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big Tags: legacy, tron, theaters, december 17
5Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBleeding Twilight
By Ron Koppelberger The rare wines of nightfall essence, In the throes of a bleeding twilight and a cool Autumn breeze, the lore of midnight arrival And demons in pursuit of beauty, the eyeless Witness grooming a clutch of widows weeds, Folded secret in shaded darkness and sins of trial by Indigo slivers of existence. [...]
4Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued